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			<p>The Tame Ship Calculator is an offline program designed to test different ship loadouts as well as providing some other semi-useful tools such as a combat simulator and a maximum gun damage calculator.</p><p>Tame is programmed using Visual Studio 2008/2010 Professional and MonoDevelop 2.4 and is designed to run on the .NET 3.5 framework.</p><p>This build is designed to run on a Linux/Mac system on <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/">Mono</a>, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. Mono is supposed to be cross-platform, so if you have Mono installed, you should be able to run Tame from Mono without issues. Note: that despite this build being specifically compiled to account for buggy bits of Mono, some things slip through the net, and thus this version will not as well as the native .NET version.</p>
			
			<p>A word or two of warning, the Mono implementation of Windows Forms isn't too great. This version, though it has been compiled to fix a couple of very specific bugs, still crashes incredibly regularly, and isn't really fit for us at this time. It is provided purely so anyone interesting can try having a play around with it - I can pretty much say with 100% certainty that you will not be able to make particularly good use of the program. Issues include saving or loading ships, pilots and crew. Trying to paste into text boxes, trying to change the image paths, some of the threaded functionality. etc etc. My advice is not to use this yet!</p>
			
			<p>The current Mono build is designed to work with Mono JIT version:<b>
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?>.</b> You can check which version of Mono you have installed by typing: <i>mono -V</i> into your command line, if you have Mono installed.</p>

<p>If you're feeling particularly lazy, and want a little shell script that will start up tame without you having to type <i>"mono ~/apps/Tame_Public_Mono_0.1.0.9.exe"</i> into your command line every time you want to start the program. I have an example of how you might do that available here: <a href="tame" target="_blank">Link.</a> (Note: I never said I was <i>competent</i> at shell scripting.)</p>

<p>In the event that everything is horribly out of proportion, you may wish to try installing Windows Fonts, as Tame makes use of these. If you have a Windows Partition on your computer, mount it and find the "C:/Windows/Fonts" directory. Open it up, and find "Gabriola.ttf" and "micross.ttf" and past them into a directory called ".fonts" in your home folder (you may have to create this directory). Logging in and out should make those fonts become usable for your account, or you can type: <i>sudo fc-cache -fv</i> into your command line to rebuild the font cache yourself. If you don't have a Windows partition, then you'll have to find some other way to get the fonts if you want everything to appear correctly. I of course suggest <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1130" target="blank">a legal purchase from a Microsoft</a></p>

<p><i>Note: Instructions on this page are written with Ubuntu Linux in mind. Things may be marginally different on other Linux systems, and significantly different on Mac systems.</i></p>
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